In an attempt to get this back on course, I've played through both X-Wing and Tie Fighter recently by using DosBox. The only real tweak you need to bear in mind is to use Gravis Ultrasound instead of the ever shite soundblaster.

Wow, you really are an aggressive little man. Are you Derek Smart Phd ?

Without it's space scenario Nexus was effectively a one unit RTS without any resource gathering. It could have been really good if it tried to be a spiritual successor to the excellent Starfleet Command 1 and gone down the fleet combat simulator route, but it got lost en route.

No, it didn't have an on-rails shooter segment. It did have a really bad stealth level though, and I sort of gave up there.

I really need to go back and play I-War 2 again. I dig it out every 3 years or so to see if I can beat the first battle. About 10 years of failure so far.

Clive_Dunn wrote:
I really need to go back and play I-War 2 again. I dig it out every 3 years or so to see if I can beat the first battle. About 10 years of failure so far.

Is that the one where you're a child with the ship instructing you, and then you die about 50 times before putting the cd back in the case and throwing the case out the window? I bought that. Really short campaign.

PenguinJim wrote:
I think.. maybe.. lol.. new tie fighter game really needs 3D space to be good.. but you guys won't like it unless it's on xbox. But developers follow a sine curve of impartiality with respect to market 3D and based on "gamers" choosing xbox because if you like shooting in games you are retarded.. a lot of reports show low iq on these forums and only an idiot would post here..

New tie fighter game would need to use Soundblaster to improve graphics of course, but Microsoft has made sure we can't use Soundblaster anymore as part of their xbox plan.

And when Rrrufty says "there are 400 3D space sims featuring superior joystick controls and no 2D radar option and the lead programmer's name is Sven" he is mistaken, there are 3. The rest have no Sven, princess.

But.. a new shooty-in-space game will come out and everyone will buy it if it's like Call of Duty in space and uses 2D.. to help people orient themselves.. therefore making it not real space. xbox ruined space sims. Lair was the last great space sim.

Never played Lair. X3 was pretty good - arent they making a new one?

Also i was massively dissapointed in the xbox version of Wing Commander. WC1+2 and Secret Ops were amongst my favourite ever games growing up, and the xbox live version was utterly atrocious. But i imagine kids loved it